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Shane Warne Shares His Views On India-Australia Series

Former Australia spinner Shane Warne said that Australia's Test series defeat to India has resulted in a "huge fallout" in the team and he also shared his views on it as well. Team India registered a stunning win on Tuesday when they beat Australia by three wickets in the fourth and final Test and won the four-match Test series by 2-1 to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as well.

"I think there'll be a huge fallout from this (defeat). There's not too many times that you lose to the second or third (choice) side. Their (Australia) tactics will come into question, and they have to. Bowlers will come into question, people's spot in the team will come into question. It has to. You can't just deflect it and flick it off and say India were too good for us," Warne was quoted as saying by Fox Cricket.

However, Warne applauded the Indian team which battled with a lot of injuries to its key players like Jasprit Bumrah, R Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja etc and the absence of their regular captain Virat Kohli who had played only the first Test as he came to India for the birth of his first child.

However, the spin legend further added that Australia didn't use their chances well in the series. "Yes they were, but Australia had so many chances in this series to bury it and crush India, but they couldn't do it. They just couldn't do it," he said.

Meanwhile, Shane Warne was quite vocal about Tim Paine's captaincy and he said that the tactics were not good enough as well.

"I think at times their tactics haven't been good enough, and I suppose that's got to come down to Tim Paine as captain," he said. "It's not just Tim Paine's fault, the bowlers are allowed to say 'Tim I want to do this', so it's a combination between the bowlers and the captain. But at the end of the day, you are captain, you have to take responsibility. He'll be disappointed."